Making the World Go Round

When World Pediatric Project, a non-profit that provides critical-care health services to children in the Caribbean and Central America, found themselves knee-deep in a pricey server rebuild and data recovery process, they decided it was time to look for a new IT partner. One who could backup and maintain the network and connect their international staff, all while keeping their mission and budget in mind. That’s when they joined forces with another small business – Hermetic Networks.

A fresh IT foundation with commitment to maintenance

It didn’t take long for the Hermetic team to realize that World Pediatric Project hadn’t had the monitoring and security it needed to ensure their meaningful work was being properly supported by an IT infrastructure. So, HN worked quickly to fix the server, normalize and update systems, deploy Anti-Virus to all computers and establish a webmail interface for users to temporarily log into externally.

Connecting project teams creates a stronger impact on those they serve

In order to best serve the families, children and communities they work for, World Pediatric Project needed everyone involved in their organization to have access to their in-house patient database, no matter where they were in the world. And not only did it need to be accessible, but secure.

Hermetic Networks worked within World Pediatrics budget and established a permanent connection between the offices in Richmond and St. Louis, and enabled remote users to connect back to Richmond from computers wherever they were.

Today, the entire team can work together on projects from anywhere, thanks to the remote access created by Hermetic Networks, creating better communication and improving workflow. And with their IT infrastructure being monitored and maintained regularly by the HN team, they can focus on the important work at hand – reaching out to more children in need of medical attention.

“Our environment presents different kinds of challenging situations to Hermetic Networks; we’re working in areas where connectivity is particularly challenging but our staff needs to be able to access our shared drive … and they make it work.”

Emily Robertson

Patient Database Manager

“As a non-profit, we don’t have the luxury of investing in the “gold-plated” solution – Jeff [and the Hermetic Networks team] sets my mind at ease for problem-solving solutions in the context that we’re working in.”

Mike Grow

Chief Operating Officer

Project Challenge:

World Pediatric Project needed upgrades across the board for working with critical data in remote locations and communicating among staff in order to efficiently achieve their mission of providing quality healthcare to children around the globe. Between server hardware failures, software misconfiguration, and a non-existent IT process framework, WPP needed help, and fast.

Hermetic Networks Monitoring and Management for critical servers and infrastructure to ensure stability and security 24/7.

Deploy Cisco routing equipment between multiple geographic locations for site-to-site and client-based access to Richmond and St. Louis data assets from anywhere in the world.

Leverage industry-leading technologies to easily connect key personnel, anywhere in the world, without dedicated IT staff.

Benefits:

Working, reliable infrastructure

The possibility of data loss is reduced immensely by reconfiguring existing assets for redundancy and implementing monitored backup plans for all servers. Users can effectively collaborate on a stable network backbone that instills confidence.

Anywhere Access

Digital assets and communications can be accessed from anywhere in the world staff might find themselves next. Outlook automatically connects securely to Exchange and remote offices stay connected to distributed assets 24/7.

Insight and Support

Through always-on monitoring of critical assets, key personnel are always kept informed of issues before they become serious problems. Mobile users know their computers are clean and safe, and there is always personal assistance available wherever they are.

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